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Bug 359161

Summary: x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers ebuild improvement
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX    
Severity: minor CC: jer, spock
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Attachments: Build log

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2011-03-16 14:53:31 UTC
Created attachment 266129 [details]
Build log

I see that if there isn't 
[*] Enable loadable module support  ---> 
nvidia-drivers does not build

Is a good idea to put in the ebuild a small check?
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2011-03-16 15:53:03 UTC
Gentoo doesn't need to be fool proof. If you don't want to load modules into your kernel and turn off that feature, how are you supposed to load the nvidia kernel module? We could ply the tree with these safeguards against this kind of PEBKAC and never see the end of it.